Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-25


more Of tenders, which indicates that
large proportion OF our people in
tend to keep boarders" this winter.
1t shows likewise that the news column
is read with profit as well as instruc-
ton.
VIM Hunter, an old resident Of
Thurston county, died suddenly at
Tacoma this morning. He lelt this
place yesterday by the North Pacific,
apparently in good health, to spend
Thanksgiving with his step-sons,
Messrs. c. T. and X. W. Uhlman, and
telegram this morning to Mr. Moss
man announces his decease.
Sheriff Claughton, OF Lewis county,
last Wednesday evening arrested in
Olympia, F. Murphy and Clifton
Parthey, young men 10 and 30 years
OF age, held to answer at Chehalis, for
breaking into and robbing the Win
lock postotiice OF $40, and Chester
Moran, boy OF II, awaiting the ac-
ton the Grand Jury for robbing a
saloon at Centralia, who had escaped
from the Lewis county Jail. They
were taken back to their old quarters.
Mr.. Bunker, the veterinary surgeon
authorized by the county Commission
ers to ascertain the correctness of the
report that infectious diseases existed
among horses in this county, few
days ago visited the farms of E. c. AK
tell and Samuel Dodge, where it was
said the diseased animals were quar-
tered, and reports that at each place
he found one horse afflicted with
chronic catarrh, a contagious disorder
The cases were declared to be incur
able, and the owners had promised to
kill the animals.
Mr.. J. A. Yemen ard wife arrived
last Tuesday, from Cleveland, Ohio
and are now visiting friends and
relatives in Olympia. Mr.. Yemen is a
brother of Mr.. L. P. Yemen, of this
city. He came from Chicago over
the Canadian road, and after taking
in the sights of the Sound country,
will proceed to San Francisco and
thence return to the East by the Cen
trail Union or Southern route. He
says the half had not been told him
in regard to the productions and
scenery of our Territory, and he may
probably be induced to return and stay
on this Coast during the remainder of
his life.
The boys and girls do say that the
entertainment at Collegiate Institu tie,
last Wednesday evening, was just the
thing for well-ordered school. The
exhaustive programme WAS equal if
not superior to anything ever before
presented to the people of the Capital
City. Everything in the cart gallery"
was of itself wonderment of rare
curiosity, and the committee of ar
engagements spared no effort to please
and edify their delighted guests.
In paintings and statuary, the old
masters as we'll as home talent were
represented in lavish profusion. Re-
freshments were abundantly supplied
and all went home, eager to hear, very
soon, the next appointment.
The careful attention of readers is
directed to the report of Engineer
Brown upon the survey of a railroad
route from Olympia to the Chehalis
valley. The figures of the timber re-
sources on the proposed line may
seem fabulous to those unaccustomed
to the heavy growth of the West, but
if they will pass over the proposed line,
We are assured that, like the Queen
of Sheba, they will conclude the whole
truth has not been told. This is by no
means the only or larger source of pro-
fit from the development of the en-
terprise. The land, when the timber
is removed, will sustain dense pop
ulation, and is of character that
will rapidly absorb population, soon as
the road is built. There is probably no
project in the Territory that offers bet
ter and safer returns for the investment
of the capital necessary for construc-
ton than the one ON which the report
has Just been made.